Charles Landseer RA
Born 12 August 1799
Died 22 July 1879
Active: 1816 - 1873
Country of birth and death: England
Painter
Born in London
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
6 November 1837 - 10 February 1845
Elected RA in 1845.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
10 February 1845 - 22 July 1879
Was Keeper from 29 March 1851 - 6 May 1873.
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
May 1860 - 1879 (Presumed)
Listed as a Member of the Council from 1860 to 1865, from 1872 to 1873, and from 1879. See the Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Personal and Professional Connections
Brother/sibling of Edwin Landseer
Charles was the older brother
Seconder of John Lawlor
21 January 1868
For RA; unsuccessful.
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians 1864, 1865 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1865
pp. 22, 24
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Charlotte Yeldham, ‘Landseer, Charles (1799/1800–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15983, accessed 17 Aug 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1867.
Citing this record
'Charles Landseer RA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1213788742, accessed 19 Feb 2020]
